privacy

If you use tools such as GNU Privacy Guard to sign and or encrypt e-mail then you have the facility in Thunderbird, with the Enigmail extension to attach your public key (.asc file) to your e-mails. This is found as an option within the e-mail compose window. Enigmail Menu — > attach My Public…

If you are still using google for e-mail, then you should read the recent article disclosing that 3rd parties may be able to read PRIVATE e-mail, the fact that this is NOT against their policies is rather worrying. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-44699263 If you want real privacy, then perhaps it is time to dump Google, if you need…

I found this on Diaspora. Nothing To Hide (Documentary) How many times have you heard someone say: “I’ve got nothing to hide, so I’ve got nothing to fear. I’m not worried about government or corporate surveillance.” A new documentary film looks at how our passivity in the face of mass surveillance and corporate theft of…

Web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee slams UK and US net plans The web’s creator has attacked any UK plans to weaken encryption and promised to battle any moves by the Trump administration to weaken net neutrality. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-39490324

Just found a Daily Mail article (dated 27 May 2016) that seems to suggest facebook is now going to track non users in an attempt to send advertising to them,. Read more here. This is even more reason to start using adblockers for example. There are also tools such as umatrix which I have discussed on…

Yesterday I attended the Exeter Pi jam with Tom Brough and have put a write on the tech jam website. I have also downloaded the latest ToriOS image. This is so that I can carry on working on the JWM settings manager section for the manual. The ToriOS team are still looking for more…

This was posted to diaspora recently. http://thenextweb.com/insider/2016/01/22/whatsapp-beta-build-has-hidden-setting-to-share-data-with-facebook/ As users of the internet we should have the RIGHT to privacy, as users we need to question things like this. Ask questions (awkward ones at that) and keep asking until we are satisfied with the answers given, in the mean time perhaps move to decentralised services. If…

Anyone following this blog will know that I am involved with ToriOS. ToriOS is a GNU / Linux based system designed for low power and low memory systems, hence support for non-PAE hardware. ToriOS is currently in the late stages of development, and we would like more testers for the daily build iso files. More…

Diaspora – social networking that puts the user back in control. A few months ago I started using a social network called Diaspora, this has been around for a few users and is gaining popularity world wide. What is different about Diaspora is that unlike other social networks all user data is not stored in…